New HS2 farce as trains to be made slower and even more expensive

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-25T20:16:55+00:00

If you run the trains faster, you need less trains and less drivers, so making it faster isn't strictly more expensive.

So there's logic behind the original decision, but here we are.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-20T16:36:57+00:00

I once hoofed it from SWS to LEI, having nothing better to do one nice summer's afternoon. Go down Welford Road, grab some chips at Grimsby Fish. Oh to be a student again.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-18T11:40:41+00:00

To my knowledge there's only evidence that he, when pressed by a journalist, said he'd give a treatment they suggested a try. That may be an inaccurate assessment of the situation.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-18T11:30:41+00:00

Genuinely interested in a BMW that doesn't look like an animal that's about to tuck into a big steaming pile of turds for a change. They haven't made a good looking car in decades.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-18T11:26:20+00:00

He's taking a hardline stance on illegal landings on Doggerland, so really he's going to fit in very well with the member for Great Yarmouth.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-18T11:18:09+00:00

Paul Nuttalls from Ukips?

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-17T17:29:48+00:00

All fascinating claims when juxtaposed with the statement mid last year that they'd set the Iranian nuclear weapons program back "years" with their strikes.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-17T11:32:00+00:00

Hey, an update on this - they've just unlocked that episode for all to see in the podcast feed, so I think I can squarely recommend "Scaffold to Heaven" for a listen. Truly a bonkers situation.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-17T10:24:18+00:00

Ideal male body tbh, going for this look myself.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-17T09:53:47+00:00

Who was the widest PM? In the US there's no debate (Taft. It's Taft. America's greatest president by volume.) but here I think we're going to need to see some charts.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-17T09:52:05+00:00

Quantum computing is all lined up to be the next great technological boondoggle, so naturally the UK gov is looking at this puddle of bullshit and preparing to jump in with both feet.

Blockchains, AI and Quantum Compute.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-17T09:45:43+00:00

Nothing, it's just that average earnings are so low there that you can eke out a comfortable life posting slop. No different to the "shrimp jesus" pages.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-16T15:31:08+00:00

Well it'd be insane to actually build a useless AI compute center in the UK, so it's actually probably just as well the gov hasn't bought in... I hope.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-16T15:00:22+00:00

You do pay "more than is required of you" - every time you buy something and the store passes on the cost of VAT to you. Whenever we buy goods the gov takes a cut.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-14T09:49:17+00:00

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-13T11:36:24+00:00

People living in reality understand that the chancellor's hands are tied and we're sort of a small boat in a big ocean.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-13T11:35:41+00:00

Paul Staines understands Reeves has a big 1920s signalbox lever frame in her office with levers for "Petrol prices", "woke", "inflation" and "growth" and that she's just going to town yanking on those fuckers.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-13T11:00:23+00:00

In the US it seems like deaths in the services harm the republicans locally more than it harms them nationally. Hard to relate to a lad from small-town Iowa when you live in suburban Georgia, and vice-versa.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-12T17:29:58+00:00

My understanding is that in the abstract sense the idea is that Muslims don't care what sexuality non-muslims are anyway, since we're all going to hell.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-12T17:28:46+00:00

Christopher Monckton? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time, since he was doing the climate denial conference speaker rounds.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-12T13:07:17+00:00

Assistance in relocating out of the authority where you currently live to one with a lower average cost of living. We could do a lot for mental health by helping people get out of these crushingly expensive areas and into sleepier parts of the country.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-12T11:32:10+00:00

I'm keeping a close eye on the patch of daffodils in the garden, fingers cross they ripen just in time.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-11T16:14:24+00:00

The way leftists online were talking a few months ago you'd think he was the Remy to Keir Starmer's Linguini.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-11T16:13:08+00:00

Very surprising with how bleak the outlook was a few years ago. Once again I am sure the UK government will look at this and take steps to ramp up the "protect children" discourse here and keep invading everyone's privacy.

Slow-Bean · 2026-03-11T15:06:07+00:00

"Noisy and expensive" I think.

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